Hezbollah drones targeted a military command center in northern Israel in response to the killings of a Hamas leader and a Hezbollah commander, the militant group said.
The group said in a statement that “a number” of attack drones targeted the command center in Safed in what was Hezbollah's deepest attack into Israeli territory since October 8, the day after Hamas launched attacks on Israel from Gaza.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed that one “hostile aircraft fell at an IDF base in northern Israel” but said “no injuries or damage were reported.” Interceptors were launched towards other “hostile aircrafts,” the IDF said.
In response to the latest Hezbollah attack, the IDF said it struck a “UAV launch squad in southern Lebanon” and that “artillery is also striking the sources of the launches fired into northern Israel.”
Israel killed Hezbollah senior commander Wissam Tawil in a targeted attack in southern Lebanon on Monday, and last week, the deputy head of the political bureau of Hamas Saleh Al-Arouri was killed in a strike on southern Beirut.